Resources

• Open Education and MOOCs

  This video features Prof. Graeme Earl, Director of Enterprise and Impact (Humanities), University of Southampton, talking about the benefits and challenges of Open Education and Massive Open Online Courses.

• Sound Studies

  The course presents Sound Studies (5 ECTS) in five units involving theoretical, analytical and practical competences.

• Spatial Humanities & Social Justice

  This video features Angel D. Nieves, Professor of Africana Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamilton College, US, talking about the field of black spatial humanities.

• Introduction to Digital Humanities

  This course brings together established and emerging scholars from different parts of the world, fields and disciplines, theoretical and methodological traditions, who demonstrate the diversity of Digital Humanities by critically approaching schools of thought, methods, tools, standards, projects, and teaching practices in a series of videos.

• Manage, Improve and Open Up Your Research Data

  This module looks at emerging trends and best practice in data management, quality assessment and IPR issues. It looks at policies regarding data management and their implementation, particularly in the framework of a Research Infrastructure.

• Management Challenges in Research Infrastructures

  This module looks at some of the key management issues that arise within research infrastructures.

• Mixed Reality and Social Engagement

  This video features Tamar Gordon, Professor of Anthropology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. In this video she discusses Mixed Reality and Social Engagement. Tamar talks about Augmented Reality as a tool that can make history come alive, while helping us to interpret cultural-historical environments and reflect upon our own experience and subject position within our own society.

• Multimodal Literacies

  This course invites you to discover the world of digital multimodal literacies through history, examples, experiments and editing tools. In the last unit you will be able to build your own multimodal editing tool, an eTalk.

• My Digital Humanities: A Feminist Reading

  This video features Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture a Texas A&M University. Laura defines feminism from a Digital Humanities perspective arguing for a need to adjust practices so that they are not replicating the sexist infrastructure of the traditional academy and business world.

• My Digital Humanities: Visualising Text

  This video features Geoffrey Rockwell, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada and Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill University. Their discussion involves text visualisation within Digital Humanities, thus emphasising, that visualisation is not the end product, but an intellectual process of thinking and interpreting text.

• What is the Role of Training and Education in Research Infrastructures?

  DARIAH Director Toma Tasovac spoke to fellow DARIAHns and colleagues from prospective DARIAH countries about the role of training and education in digital research infrastructures.

• Introduction to Research Infrastructures

  By the end of this training module, you will be able to: understand the elements of common definitions of research infrastructures; be able to discuss the importance of issues such as sustainability and interoperability; understand how research infrastructure supports methods and communities; and be aware of some common critiques of digital research infrastructures in the Humanities.